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20 Aug

Posted at 09:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_2690" align="alignright" width="125"]CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips series[/caption] This post is part of a series of blog posts I'm writing about CILIP Revalidation. Last year I worked with CILIP as a Future Skills Project Worker on a part-time secondment basis helping develop CILIP's Professional Registration (Certification, Chartership, Fellowship and Revalidation). I went on to use the new process to successfully revalidate my CILIP Chartership earlier this year, and am sharing my experience through a series of blog posts. For other posts in the series, see the Revalidation Hints & Tips series. There are two parts to CILIP Revalidation; your log of CPD activities, and your supporting statement. The supporting statement is your opportunity to explain and reflect on your CPD activities. You only have 250 words, so you have to be fairly concise.

19 Aug

Posted at 09:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_2690" align="alignright" width="125"]CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips series[/caption] This post is part of a series of blog posts I'm writing about CILIP Revalidation. Last year I worked with CILIP as a Future Skills Project Worker on a part-time secondment basis helping develop CILIP's Professional Registration (Certification, Chartership, Fellowship and Revalidation). I went on to use the new process to successfully revalidate my CILIP Chartership earlier this year, and am sharing my experience through a series of blog posts. For other posts in the series, see the Revalidation Hints & Tips series. The first part of Revalidation is completing 20 hours of professional development, or CPD (Continuing Professional Development) as it's commonly referred to. The guidelines suggest that this would be on a roughly annual basis, though it may take slightly longer (or a lot less!).

18 Aug

Posted at 09:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_2690" align="aligncenter" width="575"] CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips[/caption] Earlier this year I successfully revalidated my CILIP Chartership. Having been involved in developing the new scheme for CILIP Professional Registration (which incorporates Certification, Chartership, Fellowship, and Revalidation) during my part-time secondment at CILIP last year, I was keen to put what I had learnt into practice and test whether Revalidation was as straight forward as we'd hoped. I spent quite a bit of time examining Revalidation in other professional organisations, and it was evident that the previous version of CILIP Revalidation was much more involved than comparators. The message from member feedback (which also...

03 Jun

Posted at 08:00h in Technology by
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I was recently invited to test a product on behalf of MyTrendyPhone.co.uk. One thing I thought I would find useful was an iPad case with a keyboard. I was sent a Universal Tablet Bluetooth Keyboard and Leather Case: [caption id="attachment_2658" align="aligncenter" width="224"] Universal Bluetooth Keyboard Case[/caption] Please note: I've include my own photos throughout but they're taken in not much daylight on my phone camera, so you may be better off checking out the product photography on the product page. The reason I wanted one of these was for travelling. As a researcher and workshop facilitator, I spend quite a bit of time travelling and...

06 Jan

Posted at 10:00h in Productivity, Publications, Uncategorized by
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Last year I wrote a column for the CILIP Update magazine on the topic of Getting Things Done. The column came about as a follow on from an article I wrote on the topic in 2012. The article was very well received and so I was invited to develop a series of columns on various different aspects. These were published every other month during 2013, and are now outside the embargo period so I am able to share them via the blog. Each one has a theme, and many also include additional hints and tips, updates, and some Q&As. The main takeaway...

02 Jan

Posted at 12:18h in Reflection, Uncategorized by
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As it's the first working day of 2014, I'm taking the opportunity to review how I did against my 2013 resolutions. They were: To write (and hopefully publish) a paper for a peer-reviewed journal Unfortunately this still hasn't happened - it's been on my resolutions for a while now, but the opportunity still hasn't yet materialised. However I do have some plans for this so maybe 2014 will be the year. To embed current awareness into working routine (e.g. keeping up-to-date with RSS feeds) Yes, I'm much better at this now. I've cut down the number of RSS feeds I subscribe to so that's...

31 Dec

Posted at 12:45h in Events, Leadership, Productivity, Professional Organisations, Public speaking, Publications, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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Another year has flown past and it's time for my annual review - you can see previous ones for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. 2013 has been a funny old year; nothing particularly terrible has happened, but I haven't felt as positive as I usually do and this has been reflected by a decrease in blogging and use of social media. It's not all bad though, as another reason for this decrease is a continuation of what I mentioned last year as a major lesson - trying to achieve a more sustainable work-life balance. This year I've been doing a...

31 Oct

Posted at 08:30h in Events, Library, Reflection, Technology, Uncategorized by
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…here a MOOC, there a MOOC, everywhere a MOOC MOOC! That's what it seems like at the moment anyway - everyone seems to be talking about MOOCs at the moment. I was invited to give a presentation about MOOCs at Internet Librarian International 2013 Conference earlier this month. Since it might not be a familiar term to everyone, let's backtrack a bit and cover some of the basics. What on earth is a MOOC? A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course. The name is fairly explanatory but it's useful to break that down a bit. In order to be classed as a...

26 Sep

Posted at 10:30h in Productivity, Reflection, Technology by
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="504"] Productivity by Sean MacEntee on Flickr[/caption] I've been writing my column on productivity for CILIP Update for almost a year now, and I'm really enjoying writing it and getting comments from people - it seems to be encouraging people to try new ways of working, sometimes with real day-to-day benefits for them. I've been getting really good feedback and I'm so pleased. My columns so far (also available on my Publications page) have included: Dealing with calendars and diaries To-do or not to-do, that is the question The art of saying no Helping your future self Getting to inbox zero and...